ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 debates resilience building within contexts of chronic adversities. It wades into the vicissitudes of the resilience process of an HIV-positive youngster who grew up with both floating and left-behind experiences. The chapter analyses how varying social dynamics in family, school, community, and powerful institutions come to shape the ebbs and flows of resilience and how the youngster navigates through the waxing and waning social structures and paves his way to favourable outcomes in the face of multiple, enduring, severe adversities. Working through Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological lens, the chapter accentuates the potential of family upbringing, school education, and community socialisation in the resilience process.
